The Nest (incorporating Eagle's Nest Theatre)

Dickens in 2008

Returning to the Spiegeltent and Touring Victoria in 2008

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During the last 16 years of his life, Charles Dickens gave 444 readings of his works in Great Britain, the United States and Europe to deafening acclaim. His and the public's favourite was A Christmas Carol. The Times called it "a happy blending of the narrative & dramatic style."

Dickens acted the part of each and every character with - as the Cambridge Independent Press said in 1859 - "a different voice, a different syle, a different face". The Portland (Maine) Transcript observed that the author "to an extraordinary extent assumes the personality of each."

Women and men wept openly during his performances, 3000-strong audiences roared with laughter and worthy outcomes were greeted with thunderous cheering and the boisterous waving of hats and handkerchiefs.

This theatrical treat was created with the assistance of Dickens' own prompt copy, including direction in the author's handwriting, & numerous contemporary accounts. Now, in Charles Dickens Performs A Christmas Carol, we can once again see the great narrator (played by Phil Zachariah) present his uproariously funny, porfoundly moving story of redemption; of a soul saved & a life made good.

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Starring Phil Zachariah

Directed by James Adler

Lighting by Lucy Birkinshaw

"Brilliance. **** & 1/2 stars" - Kate Rose (Sunday Herald Sun 2005)

"...one of the most engaging, powerful and suspensful nights of theatrical story telling." - Anne-Marie Peard (AussieTheatre.com 2006)

"...in the same ball park [as Miriam Margolyes' Dickens' Women]" - Cameron Woodhead (The Age 2007)

Nov 2, 9 & 16 @ 4pm

The Arts Centre Forecourt

100 St Kilda Rd Melbourne

Tickets

$28 Full $23 Concession

Ticketmaster 1300 136 166

www.ticketmaster.com.au

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Dickens on Tour

Charles Dickens Performs A Christmas Carol will be embarking on a tour of Victoria and Tasmania, hot on the heels of the Spiegeltent shows. Our tour scedule will be:

18 Nov	8pm	Portland Arts Centre
19 Nov	2pm	Heywood Community Hall
20 Nov	7.30pm	Hopetoun Memorial Hall
21 Nov	8pm	Wesley Performing Arts Centre, Horsham
22 Nov	8pm	Stawell Anglican Church Hall
25 Nov	7pm	Torrumbarry Hall, Echuca
26 Nov	7pm	Stanhope Memorial Hall, Echuca
27 Nov	TBA	Shepparton/Tatura/Dooking (more details coming soon)
28 Nov	TBA
29 Nov	TBA
2 Dec	7.30pm	Old Fire Station, Bendigo
3 Dec	7.30pm	Heathcote RSL Hall
4 Dec	7.30pm	Elmore Uniting Church
5 Dec	7pm	Gisborne Mechanics Institute
9 Dec	10.30am	Potato Shed, Geelong
	7.30pm	Potato Shed, Geelong
11 Dec	1.30pm	Knox Community Arts Centre
	8pm	Knox Community Arts Centre
16 Dec	TBA	Bernie Civic Centre (TAS)
20 Dec	8.30pm	Upper Yarra Arts Centre

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